Tag: Film
Don’t Send In the Clones! Star Wars: Episode II
Episode II…………oh Christ. I won’t beat around the bush here, Attack of the Clones was terrible. And I never in a million years believed I…
Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Aaron Charles’ List
Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). At any point during a single year over the past decade…
The Force is Strong with This One (Really!) – In Defense of The Phantom Menace
1999 is remembered for many things in film: the passing of one of cinema’s legendary storytellers in Stanley Kubrick. The ascension of Paul Thomas Anderson…
How Dare Real Life Intrude Into My Fantasy! Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
You’re George Lucas: you’ve just created what other filmmakers only dream of doing and so rarely accomplish – creating a cultural phenomenon. Audiences loved it,…
Filmotomy Podcast 95: Let’s Talk About Star Wars
With the imminent release of Episode IX of the 40 year old Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, we decide this is a perfect…
The One That Started It All: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Greetings, you stuck-up, scruffy-looking nerf herders! As the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga hits theaters with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, my Master,…
The AFI Announce their Top Ten in Film and Television
The American Film Institute declared their top ten lists for achievements in film and television for 2019. Due to being outside of the American-made format,…
Nominations Announced for the 2019 Satellite Awards
The International Press Academy announced their 2019 nominations for the 24th Annual Satellite Awards. Like the Golden Globes, the IPA break down their categories in…
Film Review: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman – now on Netflix
Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated mob saga The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as the late mob assassin Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (1920-2003) is a dream…
Dear Marvel Fans: Do You Even Like Cinema?
Dear Marvel Fans, I hope you read this letter with the utmost respect, as I certainly don’t mean to insult your intelligence. I’ve noticed on…
Film Road to Halloween: The Horror Masterpiece that is The Exorcist (1973)
Often I wonder with a kind of disappointed enthusiasm, what it was like to actually be around to see some of cinema’s greatest motion pictures…
Film Road to Halloween: There’s No Film Quite Like Possession (1981)
Possession opens in West Berlin, the crosses implanted into the ground to commemorate the dead, and the dividing wall very much a part of the…
Film Road to Halloween: Angst (1983) Will Leave You Creepily Shaken And Stirred
As noted back when we did our Year in Film series last year, there’s a general feel about 1983. That the commercial film world took…
Film Road to Halloween: 10 Films from the last 5 years to Darken your Halloween
During the course of the lead up to Halloween, my Greek wife asks me many a time – is anyone covering this movie or that…
